On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 05:20:02PM +0000, David Marsh wrote: > [Traditional interleaved quoting: please read to end for all comments]
Since it's traditional, I would rarely specifically comment to say that I'd done it. :) > And what's the difference between 'upgrade' and 'dist-upgrade' exactly? > (I've never been entirely sure?) The description of 'upgrade' in the apt-get(8) man page explains that there are some things that "under no circumstances" will it do. 'dist-upgrade' doesn't have those restrictions. > With dist-upgrade, I would get: > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > php4 > The following NEW packages will be installed: > libdate-calc-perl > The following packages have been kept back > lesstif-bin > The following packages will be upgraded > amaya ash bash bc bison blt-common bsdgames bsdmainutils bsdutils cdda2wav > cdrecord cramfsprogs cron dash dc dialog diffstat docbook-dsssl > docbook-to-man fbset fdutils feh file findutils flex flexml gdb glibc-doc > gnupg grep grep-dctrl hostname info lesstif1 libc6 libc6-dev libltdl3 > libncurses5 libnss-db libpam-modules libpam-runtime libpam0g libpcre3 > libpng2 libsensors1 libtiff3g libungif4g libwine lilo locales login mailx > make mkisofs mount mtr-tiny mutt nano ncurses-base ncurses-bin ncurses-term > nedit nfs-common nfs-kernel-server nvi passwd procmail qiv sed setserial > sharutils strace syslinux tar texinfo timeout traceroute util-linux > util-linux-locales wdg-html-validator whois wine-doc winesetuptk wwwoffle > yodl > 85 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded. > Need to get 43.8MB of archives. After unpacking 16.3MB will be used. With the exception of the removal of php4, this looks fairly simple to me. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
